Dr. Aruna Munasinghe is the senior consultant physician in charge of the Sri Lanka – Victoria Emergency and Trauma Care Centre, Teaching Hospital Karapitiya. He graduated from the Colombo Medical School and completed his post doctorial Training at the Townsville Hospital affiliated to the James Cook University, North Queensland Australia. He is the first and only Sri Lankan having the prestigious fellowship of the American College of critical care Medicine. In addition to many achievements he holds a Diploma in Mechanical Ventilation from the University of Paris. He pioneered many critical care and Emergency Medicine concepts to Sri Lanka including point of care Sonography in Emergency and Critical Care. He is also considered as the first person who introduced lung ultrasound and Mechanical ventilation formal training to Sri Lanka. He is the founder president of the Critical Care Forum as well as the current secretary general of the association of SAARC critical care societies. He is also involved in several clinical trials and a winner of the presidential award for research. He was recently appointed as a member of the National Science Foundation in Sri Lanka by the Ministry of Science Technology and Atomic Energy